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Mission and Values | History | Family Preservation Services About Seraaj Family Homes, Inc.Mission and ValuesThe Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. champions the right of every child to experience safety and permanency through the provision of intense family preservation services and therapeutic foster care. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. is a licensed child-placing agency with in-home, wrap-around and therapeutic support services that strengthen, empower, and reunify families through our Comprehensive Treatment Program. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. provides quality therapeutic foster care services on a 24 hour-a-day basis to families and children regardless of ethnic background, sex, age, creed, or disability. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. is committed to assisting families in the development of appropriate living and social/economic systems by providing services in a direct, face-to-face, in-home service delivery format. The company believes in providing services to the "whole" individual and family. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. strongly believes in family preservation, family reunification, family visitation, and children's ability to achieve permanency. As such, the company is an agency capable of providing services to meet every facet of the clients' needs either directly or as a subcontractor. The values of Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. are the cornerstones and building blocks comprising a foundation that yields the caliber of quality services we provide. The company strives to exemplify these values in every aspect and in every service provided during every minute of each day. Therefore, each member of our team individually possesses and demonstrates the following attributes as they are the values of Seraaj Family Homes, Inc.
HistorySeraaj Family Homes, Inc. began operation in 1987. Abdul and Nadiyah Seraaj, the company's founders, are Alabamians with a combined total of forty years in human service delivery experience. In 1988, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. was legally incorporated in the state of Nebraska. While conducting business in Nebraska, the company successfully functioned in many capacities within the human service delivery field. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. was primarily a subcontractor in providing therapeutic wrap-around support services on behalf of families and children. The company also served as a certified GED educational site, and a provider of counseling services for the U.S. Marshal's Secret Witness Program. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. provided outpatient services for an average of two hundred and fifty (250) clients per year and obtained a twenty-three (23) county, regional contract with the Department of Human Resources in the state of Iowa. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. has a history of providing intensive in-home family preservation services to a multi-cultural population since the year 1988. The company has been a provider of mental health services for Champus Insurance, Nebraska Medicaid, Island Medicaid, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska. Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. also has a history of contracting directly with state and local government agencies such as: Iowa Juvenile Justice System; Nebraska Sarpy County Juvenile Court System; Nebraska Department of Social Services; Iowa Mass Transit Authority; Nebraska Children's Home; Waterloo Public School System; Eastern Nebraska Department of Again; and Iowa Department of Human Services. In 1993, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. moved its operation to the State of Alabama and established contracts and provider agreements with several Alabama counties to provide in-home family preservation services. These counties included: Montgomery; Macon; Dallas; Monroe; Bibb; Jefferson; Calhoun; Shelby; Wilcox; Lowndes; Walker; Houston; Bullock; and Pike. During the following year, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. became a licensed child-placing agency in Alabama. The company then had the authority to recruit, train, and license its own foster homes and conduct legal adoptions within the state. It also established its first five (5) foster homes and became certified by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation to provide outpatient mental health services. In 1995, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. established its Therapeutic Foster Care Services. From that point on, outcomes which signify quality and successful intervention preceded the company as it provides therapeutic foster care services on behalf of high-risk, complex, multiple-needs teenagers and youth. During the years 1998 through 2000, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. experienced an expansion throughout the State of Alabama to include four (4) regional offices strategically located to serve the following counties: Montgomery; Jefferson; Limestone; and Baldwin. Since then, the company has established several other satellite offices to total twelve (12). Diligently, Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. is working to ensure that - when in need - every child and family in every county has access to the quality therapeutic services that it provides on a daily basis. Family Preservation ServicesThe goals of Family Preservation Services are to remove the risk of harm in regards to the child within the home rather than removing the child from the home, whenever possible. In an effort to preserve families, professionals of Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. unite to customize the company's proven comprehensive treatment approach which includes intensive in-home wrap-around and therapeutic support services that will strengthen, empower and reunify the family as a whole. The goals of family-centered wrap-around services include:
When a family member is afflicted with substance abuse or mental health problems, other family members are often affected as well. The family itself becomes fragmented and begins to deteriorate. By meeting in a family's home, therapeutic services can be geared toward modifying the home environment. Accessibility shapes the behavior of the key family members so that it is equally as safe for the child within the household as it is if the child were to be removed. This intervention seeks to protect children and heal families by keeping them whole. Family-centered wrap-around services include:
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